How to configure airport to ignore a network?

Hi,
I will try my best to explain this issue. I work at Johns Hopkins Hospital and have access to the wireless network. It is WEP encrypted. For some reason, there is a another network with the same name that is open, which someone described to me as a 'rogue' network. Every time I turn my macbook on it picks up the open one and cannot access the internet because there is not an assigned IP address which leads me to take a series of steps that I have mastered to join the other network that is WEP (it is saved in my keychain). Is there a way or a application out there that can make airport to disregard the open network all the time and join the closed one? I have tried for about 3 weeks to troubleshoot this myself. When I open network pref, go to advanced, I have deleted the open one numerous times, click on the closed network, hit apply. That still does not connect my macbook, have to turn airport off then back on, hoping it will see the closed network. Sometimes I have to do that several times.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If there is anything that I am leaving out that would better describe settings/issues, please let me know.
Thanks,
Andrea

My wife's Mac Book has the exact same issue as yours. There is an open network in our neighborhood. Obviously, a neighbor set up their wireless network without security (and without even renaming their SSID from "Linksys"--a big no-no). I continually have to manually get her MacBook to join our encrypted network (the very same one my MacBook Pro running Tiger never has any issues joining or finding). Yet, upon waking from sleep or a restart, her MacBook still finds and automatically joins the neighbor's open network without prompting or warning but not our own, even though our home network is explicitly listed in Internet Connect.
I think the issue is deeper than just two networks having the same name. While that can cause problems, I think in your case, it is just coincidental to the issue at hand. As my own experience seems to demonstrate, it is possible to observe this behavior even when the two networks have completely different SSIDs.
It is very frustrating to have to manually get her on the network, and it is ridiculous that there's no (apparent) way to ignore specific networks. I can only conclude for now that, apparently, Leopard has a hard time "staying home."

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